Dear BPCWA worshipper, In last week’s pastoral, I covered the first 2 sessions of this year’s Church Study Series. It is important that I recap the study in our pastorals because a lot of information was covered. This was already increased from the original schedule of 2 to 3 weeks, but could not be increased further due to fellowship schedule limitations. I would however encourage all worshippers who would like to learn for the first time or refresh their learning on this topic to watch the presentations which are on our YouTube channel at bpcwa.org.au/YouTube. The errors of the Social Gospel. The Social Gospel is social activism. It is another gospel and another Jesus. How is that so? It applies

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, The topic I chose for our Church Study Series this year was, “The Christian and Social Concerns”, which was conducted over 3 weeks in February. These recordings were dubbed into Chinese and screened over the past few weeks. Churches are increasingly involved in social work, which has become somewhat of an accepted norm. All worshippers in BPCWA must understand it from a biblical perspective and not simply follow others. Hence, it is important for us to revisit the key salient aspects after the series so that we do not forget them, and in case we did not grasp them well. The pervasiveness of religious social concern. We are probably familiar with the name of the Nobel Peace

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, Last week, we had our church extension briefing following our worship services. Today, I will summarise and document what was communicated as it is important that BPCWA chronicles each stage for future generations. Project and builder update. As communicated in our previous session, only one submission was received in response to both tenders. After the initial pricing was received last August, the builder worked on finalising the pricing and sent us the second quote we received last month. To satisfy ourselves with the reasonableness of the quote submitted with only 1 tender received, we engaged a Quantity Surveyor to provide an independent price review of the project. The Quantity Surveyor’s estimation was 29 percent higher than the

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, During our Worship Service today, those who serve in BPCWA will rise together to take our vows as we rededicate our service to God. Many will be people we may think are not serving because we don’t “see” them serving God. This is because much of the service in BPCWA is done by the lay people who diligently serve God from their homes, late into the night after work, on their days off from work, and during weekends. While “working from home” has become a norm in society today, “serving from home” when we are not in church has always been a characteristic of many of us for BPCWA. Particularly because we do not have a large

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Dear BPCWA worshipper, Next week, we will be having Rededication Sunday. It has been a practice in BPCWA whereby those serving are encouraged to renew their vows annually. However, any practice should not simply be a ritual nor continued only for the sake of continuity. Since it is coming up next Lord’s Day, I thought it would be a good opportunity to explain to and remind everyone this week why we are having it. Why do we have it annually? We need to be reminded about why we serve at least yearly. Otherwise, we can serve with the wrong motives.Even for those who may be aware of why we have Rededication Sunday, it is a good reminder for us as

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